teelers Had Mediocre Talent Last Year According to GM

Saturday, 24 May 2014 12:10 | Written by Administrator | | |

It's been a while since I've opined on the subject of Football, but today I got inspired. As today is the start of the draft, I surfed over to Steelers.com to see what my favorite team is doing. While there, I read this article:

"As we’ve stated before, we finished 8-8,” said Colbert. “We weren’t good enough. Quite honestly the talent that we had assembled was an 8-8 team. Any other explanation than that I think is incorrect. Obviously the plan is to be able to upgrade the team that we are going to put on the field in 2013."

Let me get this straight: in the 2012/2013 season, the Steelers had the overall #1 defense in the league.

They had Big Ben Roethlisberger and an array of fast receivers.

They had three competent running backs.

They had Heath "First Down" Miller.

And the most logical explanation for an 8-8 season is mediocre talent?

Let me venture that any other explanation would make more sense. I'm not saying it was aliens, but I'm not ruling it out either.

The Steelers refuse to blame injuries, so I'll stick to the company line on that one. As Tomlin says, the standard is the standard.

Before last season, they got rid of a lot of key players, and brought in a new offensive coordinator. They decided to go to a short-pass, dink-and dunk-offense that was designed to keep Big Ben healthy. (Big Ben got hurt anyway.) The play calling seemed geared to making Mike Wallace look bad, so that no one would offer him big money this year. (Good luck to Mike with the Dolphins. Enjoy that $60 million over 5 years.)

Meanwhile the GM blames the talent pool? Really?

This year should be great then. We've lost Harrison, Wallace and Mendenhall, and Miller is hurt. Unless several people blossom into superstars, or they find some draft day miracles, we're looking at a net loss of talent.

Oh and Colbert just told the current players he doesn't think they were good enough. That's a great motivator. Look for him to start a motivational speaking tour soon.

So by this logic, what are we looking at this year? 6-10? 4-12?

I know we all have moments when we just say stuff that sounds good in our heads but looks bad on paper. I'm guilty of that. But for the sake of this season, Mr. Colbert please say something to the effect that last year's players were only good enough for 8 and 8. There were other factors at play and you know it. Fix those problems and fire the team up.